Word: tonkin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...planes last week, including a record 16 on a single day. All missed, thanks to a highly sophisticated defense-part electronic trickery, part "jinking" (violent evasive maneuvers)-used by U.S. pilots. When a mission goes in, radar-rigged C121 Constellations, called "the Big Eyes," orbit off the Tonkin coast, able to pick up a missile launch at the moment of ignition. The Big Eyes flash an instantaneous radio warning to the fighter-bomber pilots, who wrench into tight turns and deep dives that the SAMs cannot follow...
...Viet Nam's clammy cities as the droop-nosed F-4 Phantom jets snapped off the U.S.S. Ranger's dipping flight deck. Next into the crystalline sky burst four flights of A-4 Skyhawks. Then the mission, 45 planes strong, streaked low across the Gulf of Tonkin toward the craggy, familiar coastline of North Viet Nam-and a target never before attacked by American pilots...
...store sage, Oregon's Wayne Morse flailing a limp arm, Vermont's George Aiken beaming avuncularly for the cameras-all of them questioning or baiting Administration witnesses and, through the witnesses, Lyndon Johnson. In the end only five Senators voted against tabling a motion rescinding the 1964 Tonkin Gulf resolution, which had authorized the President to take all necessary action in Southeast Asia. But perhaps two dozen other Senators, while refusing to vote against the Commander in Chief, were nevertheless known to have serious reservations about Administration policy. Almost to a man, the critics were Democrats...
...Administration's noisiest critic, Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse, tacked onto the money bill a prickly amendment proposing that the Senate show its disapprobation of Viet Nam policy by voting to cancel the August 1964 resolution, passed by Congress after the Gulf of Tonkin attacks, that then-and thereafter-authorized the President to take "all necessary measures" against aggression in Southeast Asia. Georgia's Russell countered with his own rider reaffirming the Tonkin resolution. Both were potentially troublesome...
...With that nay, Fulbright may well have widened irreversibly the breach between himself and Lyndon Johnson. White House Press Secretary Bill Moyers had gone out of his way to emphasize that the President would regard any vote to kill Morse's motion as the equivalent of reconfirming the Tonkin resolution...